PDF export fails with pdflatex and LuaTeX

Martin Weise M at rtinWeise.de
Tue Feb 11 20:44:11 UTC 2020


On 11.02.20 20:44, Kornel Benko wrote:
> Am Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:33:23 -0500
> schrieb "Paul A. Rubin" <parubin73 at gmail.com>:
>
>>>> If you open a terminal in the temp directory and run pdflatex against
>>>> the .tex file, does it compile? If not, is there a meaningful error
>>>> message in the terminal?
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>  
>>> Yes, it does. There is no error.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>  
>> Okay, what follows is definitely grasping at straws. From a clean start 
>> of LyX, load the HelloWord.lyx file and try to either view or export a 
>> PDF. Presumably this will fail. Copy the LaTeX .log file in the LyX temp 
>> directory to someplace safe. Leave LyX open (so that the temp directory 
>> remains).
> I would
> 	create a new (empty) directory
> 	copy HelloWord.lyx there
> 	and use this copied file
>
>> Now, in a terminal, run pdflatex on the .tex file in the LyX temp 
>> directory. Presumably this succeeds in generating a PDF file. Copy the 
>> new LaTeX .log file someplace safe. Then compare the two (using either 
>> 'diff' if you are command-line oriented or 'meld' if you like graphical 
>> output) and see if you can find a clue in the differences between the 
>> log files. Alternatively, you can post both log files here.
>>
>> Paul
>>
> 	Kornel
>
Ok, here's something I (just) noticed: pdflatex, when run without
arguments, produces a .dvi file from HelloWorld.tex. It is only if I
specify "-output-format=pdf" that it creates a .pdf file.

>From what I understand, this is not what pdflatex should normally do.



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